Hassiba Ben Bouali

Hassiba Ben Bouali (18 January 1938-9 October 1957) was an Algerian FLN militant during the Algerian War

Biography
Hassiba Ben Bouali was born on 18 January 1938 in El-Asnam, Algeria, and she moved to Algiers in 1947 to study at the Lycee Delacroix high school. Ben Bouali was a member of the Girl Scouts, exposing her to the suffering of the Algerian people under French rule as she traveled across the country. At the age of sixteen, she joined the General Union of Algerian Muslim Students, and she participated in the Algerian national struggle as an FLN militant. On 9 October 1957, she was killed alongside Ali La Pointe, Little Omar, and Hamid Bouhamidi when the French blew up their hideout in the Casbah during the Battle of Algiers.